linux-kernel - Re: Reading EeePC900 battery info causes stalls

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Date:	Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:55:42 +0100
From:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
To:	unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
CC:	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lenb@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Reading EeePC900 battery info causes stalls

Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
> 
> Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>> eeePC is known to be affected by EC GPE storm bug, and there is a 
>> patch for 2.6.27 to workaround the problem. please look at
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11549
>> for latest patch and bugs 10724/9998 for problem discussion.
> 
> Even with http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=17845&action=view 
> (fast transaction) applied the stalls are still present (and seemingly 
> just as bad as before).

I should note that the patch DOES fix the slow volume hotkey repeat rate 
that I was seeing.
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